Yes, I know that you get the quarter back, but I am amazed by the efficiency of the concept. It reinforces doing the “right thing” and returning the cart... which means that they don’t have to pay someone to constantly police carts, and there are no insurance claims for carts rolling into the side of some soccermom’s Range Rover, and I SAVE MONEY ON GROCERIES.
Everybody wins.
I love Aldi’s but have two beefs: One is a very limited selection and the other is sometimes feeling like I’m standing in a Soviet bread line at a mile long check-out when there’s only one cashier working.